Our spacious bungalow Birch End, plus Oaks Cottage and Smithy Brow
provide excellent self catering accommodation in the small
town of Ambleside, at the north end of Lake Windermere. You
can cruise from here to Bowness and beyond, the full length of England’s
longest lake. Other nearby lakes for boating have their special claim:
Coniston Water – Campbell’s Bluebird, and Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons;
Ullswater– Wordsworth’s daffodils; Derwent Water, Keswick – home to
writers, Coleridge and Southey and to the Theatre by the Lake. Our
vacation homes are at the heart of Cumbria’s Lake District
National Park containing England’s highest mountains: Scafell Pike,
Helvellyn,and Skiddaw, all over 3000 feet. Besides walking,
climbing, scrambling, cruising, and watersports, attractions to visit
include Beatrix Potter’s house and gallery at Hawkshead and exhibition at
Bowness, Wordsworth’s homes at Rydal Mount and Dove Cottage,
Grasmere, Ruskin’s home at Brantwood, Coniston, steam trains at Lakeside/Haverthwaite
and Ravenglass/Eskdale, and many more. Our comfortable country homes
are ideally situated for all these activities. Simply click on the leaf
links below for further information.